Assorted Prose of Updike

326 pages

English language

Published by Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-394-41473-7
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OCLC Number:
53052401

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Parodies, humorous sketches, book reviews, and autobiographical writing.

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The only memory I have of this is his dismissal of a parody of Lawrence Durrell which included the phrase "the Copt on the Beat" - because as Updike says, the original author would not have written such a thing (probably because Durrell was a humourless writer in the shadow of his more interesting brother who actually got out there and did stuff). Apart from that I probably borrowed this book from Hammersmith Library (or its satellite Barons Court), some time in the 1980s. Too long ago.